Tzar: The Burden of the Crown

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

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https://descargas-ave.webcindario.com/

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam		Can be played without Steam running

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Tzar: El Cid y la Reconquista	Released only in Spain.
Tzar: El Rey Arturo y Excalibur	Released only in Spain and Italy.
Tzar: El Imperio de Gengis Khan	Released only in Spain and Italy.
Tzar: Los Dominios de la Magia	Released only in Spain.

Essential improvements

https://discord.com/invite/ndxJHxT AS you can have different versions of Tzar, for modding, one with DATA, SOUND, and other folders, and one with PACKS folder, you can create multiple directories foreach version. Then you can archive together the different versions. Since many of the files are the same, you will need a compressor that uses one file out of say, 15 identical files. Software such as Bandizip and Peazip can compress with the zpaq compressor, which is recommended, as it saves a lot of space.

Patches

Official patches that update the game to the latest version can be found here.

Unofficial patch 1.13, which provides balance changes, is available here.

Unofficial patch Tzar 1.16b, can be found at https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown-116b/downloads/tzar116b

Unofficial Launcher https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-r2p-launcher/downloads/tzar-ready2play-launcher . You need to add cnc-draw and set it to GDI rendering, opengl CTD-ed on me

Use use https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases for stability.

Digital music Ogg format = true

Digital music Ogg format = https://github.com/dippy-dipper/ogg-winmm. Rip the music to ogg, put the files in Music folder, configure ogg-winmm

Patch with cnc-draw, music in digital format, all campaigns

https://mega.nz/file/mNsHWYCR#fJgFkTuFzSw_7Vitym-o64BxwQo1ElUy1mgNTMHRyA8

https://tza.red/ online matchmaking, only multiplayer

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\tzar.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External options menu.

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		use https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		use https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
Borderless fullscreen windowed		https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolutions support^[1]
Install HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200).

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound, Music
Surround sound		5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 2.0
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Bulgarian				Local retail version only.
French				Local retail version only.
German
Italian				Local retail version only.
Polish
Portuguese
Russian				Local retail version only.
Spanish

Steam version is available only in English.

Mods

https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-and-the-legend-of-the-return-of-the-crown/downloads/early-access-campaign-release n level 6, the extremely difficult one where you have to fortify the Keanor city across the river as well as defend against the enemy on your shore, you can let Keanor fall, in which case Sartor will be captured. The next "secret" level then will be of you rescuing Sartor, after which the game will proceed as normal. Pretty nice.

The game was a big succes in Spain and Italy, multiple campaigns were released for these markets, this is the original site where you cand download the campaigns legally and free. The audio is in spanish. https://www-fxinteractive-com.translate.goog/p004/tzexgengis.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pt-PT

Alternatively, tou can download the campaigns transalted to english, only without voices. See here the post on gog https://www.gog.com/forum/tzar_the_burden_of_the_crown/expansion_campaigns_and_fan_missions_english_translations .

Since these campaigns were only released in Spanish (and Italian?), I have provided an English translation of them. For three of the campaigns, the translations are incorporated into the campaign file already; since "Excalibur and King Arthur" is still for sale, I have only provided translated text files that must be manually imported into the mission files. (Instructions are in the README file in the zip archive.) The zip archives below for "El Cid and the Reconquista" also includes a translated fan mission written by the author of the campaign. I hope to translate some other fan missions later and post them here. (Many fan missions--in Spanish--can be found on FX Interactive's website here.)

Official Campaigns

El Cid and the Reconquista: 2.0 With Spanish voices: https://www.mediafire.com/file/3fzg2624hpy7vpx/The_Reconquista_2.0.7z/file Unvoiced: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1scyrb7kr8fmxas/Tzar_The_Reconquista_English_2.0_Unvoiced.7z/file

The Empire of Genghis Khan: 1.0 Both voiced and unvoiced included: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ad599r9x1a20nxe/Tzar_The_Empire_of_Genghis_Khan_English.7z/file

The Domains of Magic: 1.0 With Spanish voices: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8c1uyrfdviemwo4/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0.7z/file Unvoiced: https://www.mediafire.com/file/fazfyw9zqcm1mme/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0_Unvoiced.7z/file

Excalibur and King Arthur: 1.0 Translation Patch: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dn8oss83kqin88o/Tzar_Excalibur_EnglishTranslationPatch_1.0.7z/file https://www.moddb.com/games/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown Strategy guide https://archive.org/details/Tzar_The_Burden_of_the_Crown_Guide https://www.nexusmods.com/tzarburdenofthecrown/mods/1

Mods can be installed two ways: one, you download unpack and copy the file over DATA, MUSIC, IMAGES, Sound, Music, etc. A simpler way is to delete DATA, IMAGES, MUSIC, SOUND, MOVIES and LOCAL, and create a directory in the root folder called Packs. Then you put inside the packs folder the file from here https://www.moddb.com/mods/7-new-terrain-types-for-random-maps/downloads/tzar-gog-wdt-version Finaly, you put in the packs directory the wdt file of your mods.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Versus
Online play		8	Versus https://tza.red/ Online matchmaking and https://tzaronline.com/

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP		Tzar central, the site is in Spanish. https://tzaronline.com/

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7.0
Software renderer		GDI

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000
Processor (CPU)	200 MHz Pentium
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	202 MB

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200) - last accessed on 2022-08-22

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200) - last accessed on 2022-08-22

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Haemimont Games
Publishers
	Take-Two Interactive
Italy, Spain	FX Interactive
Digital	Haemimont Games
Release dates
Windows	January 27, 2000
Reception
IGDB	60
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RTS
Themes	Medieval, Fantasy